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<sigh> Please forgive my country, as it seems | by adiplomat | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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The sad thing is | by SaleGamine | 2002-07-09 00:33:29 |
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hmm well the scary thing is | by Arienadean | 2002-07-09 00:45:14 |
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Yes I know. | by SaleGamine | 2002-07-09 00:59:01 |
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There is a problem with that logic... | by cural | 2002-07-09 07:43:14 |
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Humm, but Canada and the UK | by SaleGamine | 2002-07-09 10:26:05 |
| Just have to ask... |
by Ravenlock |
2002-07-09 12:34:56 |
Please don't take this as a comment on the *current* situation, as the example we have currently centered on of WWII is a different situation (how different is a matter of debate, but that is not the debate at hand).
However - surely you can't be saying that there was a single person on EARTH who didn't have the "right" to try to step in and stop Adolf Hitler by any necessary means. One can say what they will about the imposition of a certain morality on another group of people, but surely the "right" to save another human being's life (or in that example the lives of an entire people), to try to stop an oppressor of such magnitude - to obey one's OWN moral code - extends to each human being on the planet.
I don't want to try to idealize the current situation - I realize the politics behind it are anything but idyllic. But I do want to talk about the moral theory behind your statement - I have trouble saying that it's *wrong* for a country - or another organization of people - or my next door neighbor - to decide they're going to stand for something they see as right, and then go stand for it. Does that imply the right to violence? (Defensive or offensive?) That depends on the specifics of the situation and *not everyone will agree on the answer*.
But to simply say "you can't dictate morality, let them do as they will" is, in my opinion, to reject a very basic human duty to try to protect each other and keep our already fragile *human* (not American, not British, not Iraqi) society from falling apart. The world - ALL of it - was too slow, not too fast, to react to Hitler. Let us not start talking as if we would let something like that occur again, if it came to that. |
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